Making A Double Sided Picture Frame

Start by choosing either a color you want your frame to be...or a Pattern or a Gradient.
The choice is your's what you want your frame to look like.
Set both your foreground and background color palette to your choice.

Open a New Transparent Image 600 by 600

Go to your Preset Shape icon on your Right Hand side Toolbar...and Right click on it to bring up your "Tool Options" box...click on Tool Options to bring up your choices box..
Choose your Rectangle shape.


On your Image...start at the left hand side of it and click on your mouse and "drag" it downwards and outwards toward the center of your Image.
Go only to about the Center of your Image.


Go to your top Toolbar and click on "Layers"...then "Add a New Raster Layer"
Then go to your side Toolbar and click on the "Selection" icon...right click on it to bring up your choices box...then click on Tool Options and choose your Shape.
I chose the "Ellipse" shape...but feel free to choose which shape you want to use.


Go to your shape that you have on your Image...and click on it with your mouse and "drag" out your shape.
Try to center it on your shape.
You will have those "marching ants" on there when done.


Then go up to your little Layer palette icon on your top Toolbar and click on it to bring up your Layer Palette box.
Click on your bottom layer to highlight it.


Then close that layer palette box and on your keyboard....click on your "Delete" key.
That will remove your shape in the center of your main shape.


Then go to your top Toolbar and click on "Layers"..go down to "Merge"...and "Merge Visable".
Then go back to your top Toolbar and click on "Selections"..."Select None"..."Selections"..."Select All"...then down to "Float"and click on that.
You will have those "marching ants" around your shape...and inside your deleted out shape.


Then go to your top Toolbar and click on "Effects"...down to "3D Effects"...."Inner Bevel"
In the DropDown Menu at the top between the two window boxes I chose the first setting of "Angled"...but feel free to chose which ever setting you want to use.
Then click ok.
Your frame will now look "beveled".


Then go to your side Toolbar and click on the "Deformation" icon (it's the 3rd one down and it looks like a little box with dots in it.)


You will then have lines around your shape...and little boxes.


Click on the little box on the bottom right hand side...and on your Keyboard...click down on your "Ctrl" button and hold that down and push upward on that little box with your mouse pointer.
Also notice that as your bottom shape goes upward...the top part of your shape will also move downwards at the same time.
Do that until you are happy with the "depth" of it.


Then on your side Toolbar...click on the top Icon (the Arrow Shape) to remove the lines and little boxes around your shape.


Then go up to your top Toolbar and click on "Layers"...then "Duplicate"


Then go up to your top Toolbar and click on "Image"...then click on "Mirror"


You will then have the same shape next to it on your Image.


Then go to your side Toolbar and click on the "Mover" icon (2 lines crossing each other with little arrows on the ends)


Then click on your shapes to move them together.
Line them up evenly with each other in the middle.


Then go up to your top Toolbar and click on "Layers"..."Merge"..."Merge Visable"


Then go to your side Toolbar and click on your "Crop" icon (4th one down)


Drag it around your frame...close to your frame


Then go up to your top Toolbar and click on "Image"...look for "Crop" and click on that.


Your screen will "crop" smaller...enclosing closer to your frame.


Save it as .psp format (making a Tube out of it.)


You now have your Double Sided Picture Frame



Then go ahead and add your pictures in it.
Then save it as .jpg OR .gif format.
You may want to "Re-size" it smaller then.
I resized mine to a width of 400




Tutorial Writen By:
Debbie Reed